Light therapy news

Now there's a 'happy chair' for SAD

20 Aug 2010
When Taiwanese student Chuang Meng Jung came to study in Scotland, she soon noticed how different the grey skies were compared to the sunnier climes of her home country. After researching the effects... more»

Light therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

15 Jun 2010
An ongoing study monitoring soldiers returning to the US with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been presented to the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. The research suggests that light therapy can... more»

Green light for circadian rhythms

27 May 2010
Previous research has shown that whilst rods and cones are responsible for vision, other non-image-forming cells containing melanopsin are receptive to blue light and regulate light-dependent processes like... more»

Light to stop you lighting up

19 Mar 2010
Light therapy to help you stop smoking? It might sound like a strange idea but researchers at a US cancer centre have secured funding from drugs giant Pfizer to investigate this new application. The theory is that light therapy might... more»

Early starts mean late nights for teens

22 Feb 2010
The first field study looking at the impact of light on teenagers has shown that a lack of light in the morning has a negative effect on their sleep pattern. "As teenagers spend more time indoors, they miss out on essential... more»

How Norman Rosenthal copes with SAD

15 Jan 2010
Dr Norman Rosenthal, the 'Godfather of Seasonal Affective Disorder', talks here about his own experiences of SAD. Soon after leaving South Africa for New York he made the connection between the gloomy... more»

SAD support group in Cambridgeshire

2 Dec 2009
Hunts Mind is a mental health charity based in St. Neots, Cambridgeshire offering advice and support to people living in the Huntingdon area suffering with mental health problems. One of their service users asked about setting up a SAD... more»